BETA IS UP:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/drijgv
April 25, 2009
Already had to make a few quick changes, and uploaded Version 1.1
ANOTHER NOTE: I just realized the amount of players DFA and on waivers...I'm going to try and take care of this problem and simulate, and see how things work. As far as I know, this has always been a problem with custom rosters. I'll upload another version if I find something that works.
Here we go, a project I have been working on for the latter part of six months. World of Baseball 10 is one ambitious project, and it's still not complete. Here it is:
1.) This version is built off of CubbyFan's rosters, version 4.0. I completely give him credit for the MLB rosters/ratings/coaches/stadiums...this would have never happened without his work.
2.) This universe will include up-to-date (NOT Opening Day) organizational rosters for the MLB. What I mean by this is that the 40-man, not even the 25-man rosters will be accurate...but all players should at least be a part of their respective organizations. The reason for this that it's just too tedious and difficult to look at daily Active and Expanded rosters, and mirror them, when the games AI will just change them anyway.
3.) This will include NPB, KBO, and CPBL rosters. I did the ratings myself, and are by no means perfect. A big part of this BETA release will be to hear feedback, and makes changes for ratings.
4.) Also included are independent league rosters. This includes the American Association, Frontier League, Atlantic League, Can-Am Association, Northern League, and Golden Baseball League. Besides former major leaguers and former major league organizational players, these ratings are completely random! These will certainly need to be changed in the future. It's hard to come up with equivalents for independent leagues, and is something I'm not familiar with.
5.) All Japanese players will have correct service time...I'm thinking the KBO and CPBL will be something for a future release. Information (at least that I could understand) is minimal.
6.) This comes with NCAA D1 and D2 and NAIA feeder leagues...and I've added about 60-70 of Baseball America's Top COLLEGE prospects. This is also a work in progress. More players will be added later, when closer to the Draft and perhaps the release of OOTP 10.
7.) This comes with photos for the NPB, KBO, CPBL, and a vast majority of the independent players. I literally spent hours searching for photos...however, for the Asian leagues, a lot of the player pics are weird sizes! Something to fix in the future. MB Pelican is currently working on resizing the independent league players photos. That will be released later.
8.) All stadiums are updated throughout the universe...including NCAA D1...I'm still debating on updating the NCAA D2, NAIA for the BETA release, for information on these schools is a little more difficult to find.
9.) Lastly, I created two feeder leagues for the Independent Leagues, the Arizona Winter League, and the New York State League. In real-life, these function as development leagues and tools for the independents to pick up players. In-game, these simply feed the independent leagues via draft.
10.) The independent leagues are put in one massive league, the Independent Professional Baseball Association, made up of the respective 6 indie leagues, but serving as divisions, with 3 divisions per league. Hope this makes sense.
11.) This will also include all MLB Asian prospects...there were quite a few missing from the set, and I tried to find pictures for all of them. It will also include NPB, KBO, CPBL, and random Asian free agents!
I have literally been working on this project for the past 6+ months. Just ask my wife. This current rendition of the project has evolved many, many times over the course of 6 or so months, and is very different (and much more stable) then initially planned. It's very hard to keep wanting to do it at times, and I felt it was at the appropriate time to at least share it with the community. It's not finished, but my goal was to have the community come together a little bit, and rough out the edges, and hopefully, it could be finished (no longer BETA) in conjunction with the release of OOTP 10. This is meant to be one powerful add-on for a first-time user as soon as they load up version 10. It took me getting my Appendix taken out to get some real time to work on this, and now that it's pretty close, I would like to share it with you.
I eventually plan on building off of this in the future, and creating a WOB 10 Asia...which would include the Japanese Industrial, independent, high school, and college leagues, along with Korean and Taiwanese amateur leagues as well. This is much later in the future.
I plan on uploading it sometime late Friday (April 24th) night. Please respond with whatever questions, comments, remarks you have. Thanks.
Credits include: CubbyFan for his awesome blue print to work off, MB Pelicans for his logos and help, RazorBack for his logos and template, and I'm sure many more.